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...year. The Faculty has lacked a permanent leader since historian William C. Kirby resigned under pressure from then-University President Lawrence H. Summers in January of last year. Jeremy R. Knowles, the chemist who led FAS through the 1990s and returned to University Hall last summer to serve as interim dean, stepped down last month because of complications from prostate cancer. Anthropologist David R. Pilbeam has stood in for Knowles since April.The announcement comes after British geophysicist Jeremy Bloxham—divisional dean for the physical sciences—reportedly rejected an offer to fill the position...
...time he had hung up, Pilbeam had agreed to become the interim Interim Dean of the Faculty...
Jeremy R. Knowles, the chemist who led FAS through the 1990s and returned to University Hall last summer to serve as interim dean until the selection of a permanent FAS leader, stepped down last month because of complications from prostate cancer...
...Then-University President Derek C. Bok, who returned to Harvard last year as interim president, created the ACSR—a group of faculty members, administrators, alumni, and students—during a similar divestment debate over Angola in 1972. The 15-member committee was meant to advise the Corporation on the ethics of its investments...
...future table of general education offerings at Harvard now has a chair. Jay M. Harris, Wolfson professor of Jewish studies, has been selected to lead the General Education Standing Committee, Interim Dean of the Faculty David R. Pilbeam announced in a letter sent to professors late Wednesday afternoon. The popular master of Cabot House has been an active participant in discussions surrounding the curricular review since its inception. Under Harris’s leadership, the standing committee will be responsible for determining how to implement the University’s first new program of general education in a generation...